Name That Cat
Oh dear. It has been a long time since I’ve updated this website. My excuse is that I’ve been trying to get ‘Tell Me The Truth About Love’ into a readable state, so you guys can get your hands on it as quickly as possible. I’m working on the third draft at the moment, and there have been all sorts of problems with it – sections which are too long or too short, pace which is too slow or too fast, boring bits, repetative bits, not-funny-enough bits, bits that made even me go ‘eugh’.
I’m working very hard to correct all of these problems, and can promise you that most of them have been fixed. I’ve now just found a whole lot more which need correcting.
One thing I’ve decided to do for draft three is add a cat. There was a cat in ‘Ways to Live Forever’, and I liked it. Cats are friendly, and very comforting in times of distress.
My request to you lot is: can you help me find a name for this cat? Put suggestions for cat names in the comments, and I’ll choose my favourite. The winning cat namer will be acknowledged IN THE FINISHED BOOK (if Scholastic agree to publish it). I’ll announce the winner on my website when I’ve finished doing my edits.
In other news, ‘Ways to Live Forever’ has been doing well for itself. It won the Bolton Book Award (hurrah!), the Calderdale Book of the Year (yippee!) and the North East Book Award (which made me very happy as a North Easterner myself). It was also shortlisted for the Branford Board Award, the Lancashire Book of the Year, the UKLA Award and the Redbridge Book Award. I am feeling a little miffed that I never got to be involved in any local awards as a child, so I am very much enjoying going along to all of these ones instead. Many, many thanks to the organisers most of whom do this on top of their full-time jobs.
And I’m still blogging away at http://awfullybigblogadventure.blogspot.com, for those of you who are impatient with my very infrequent updates. Scroll down the labels on the right-hand side and click on ‘Sally Nicholls’ to findย posts written by me. Or read some of the posts by other authors. They’re worth it.
Anabel
September 11, 2009 @ 10:55 am
My last cat was called Sally. But you probably won’t like that one!
sarah davis
September 7, 2009 @ 11:05 am
I have 4 cats – willow, nightstar, Tara and Ron
alice
September 3, 2009 @ 5:36 pm
how about germima or fudge
hope you find the right name.
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Sian Price
August 27, 2009 @ 4:01 pm
How about Marmaduke or Liquorice?! Because I know 2 cats of that name that are definitely naughty enough to be in a story! xxx
Linda
August 27, 2009 @ 9:12 am
Choose with care, Sally. I once knew an old lady who called her mog Whiskey because of her colour. Visitors to the area would be startled to see the old darlin’ staggering down the front garden every night, food bowl in hand, yelling “Whiskey! Where’s my whiskey!”
Rebecca C.
August 26, 2009 @ 11:21 am
Purely going with the title of your book, how about ‘Cupid’ (or Psyche)?
Sandra-Lynne
August 25, 2009 @ 11:37 pm
Some more…
Chesterton
Calypso
Crumples
Mop
Ebenezer
Koshka
Mister Squiggles
Herr Professor
Loopy
Thunder
Scratchy
Howler
Pythagoras
Prunella
Chip
Pink Nose
T.J.
Treacle
Fluffkins
Pomfrey
Softfoot
Liquorice
Augusta
Tuesday
Dan Metcalf
August 25, 2009 @ 12:16 pm
How about ‘Woof’? Nicely confusing for the cat, and makes the neighbours think you’re a bit nuts when you’re trying to call it in at night. ๐
Linda
August 25, 2009 @ 10:59 am
I had a really pretty, white-paws-and-bib cat once, called Fang. She really lived up to her name. The French version of ‘kitty’ is Minou: I think I’d like to call a cat that, because it has a nice purry sound, but can be shouted in a sharpish sort of way if said moggy has her nose in your dinner!
Andrew Rendle
August 24, 2009 @ 10:47 pm
It’s rather geeky, but I’d like to suggest Schrodinger.